{"id":4992,"date":"2014-08-28T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:31:23","slug":"boko-haram-attacks-nigerian-soldiers-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/boko-haram-attacks-nigerian-soldiers-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Soldiers in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yaounde, Cameroon &#8211; Cameroon says its military has killed some 30 suspected Boko Haram militants who attacked areas where 480 Nigerian troops had crossed over during a battle with the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria said the troops crossed over while making a tactical maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon&#8217;s state radio reports government troops beat back two attempts by suspected Boko Haram militants to enter the country&#8217;s northern territory through a locality that shares a boundary with Nigeria&#8217;s Borno state, stronghold of the militant group. During a confrontation Tuesday, the soldiers killed 11 insurgents while 16 more were killed in an earlier attack on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/boko-haram-attacks-nigerian-soldiers-in-cameroon\/2429429.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaounde, Cameroon &#8211; Cameroon says its military has killed some 30 suspected Boko Haram militants who attacked areas where 480 Nigerian troops had crossed over during a battle with the insurgents. Nigeria said the troops crossed over while making a tactical maneuver. Cameroon&#8217;s state radio reports government troops beat back two attempts by suspected Boko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,355,379,413,4698,377,659,257,254,4692,378],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-militants","tag-borno-state","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-militants","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa","tag-yaounde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}